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enDisaster Preparedness Exercises: An Overview of What's to Comehttps://response.restoration.noaa.gov/disaster-preparedness-exercises-overview-whats-come
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Genwest Contractor, Katie Krushinski is the exercise coordinator for OR&amp;R’s Disaster Preparedness Program. She is responsible for supporting exercise design, development, delivery, and evaluation for exercises. Exercises — or simulated scenarios that mimic potential events — are extremely important, allowing us and our partners to test our ability to ensure we can carry out our missions effectively and efficiently.</p>
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</div><div class="field field-name-field-text-1 field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Southeast and Caribbean NOAA Disaster Resilience Workshop and Exercise</strong></p>
<p>Following successful workshops (and active hurricane seasons) in 2017 and 2018, the NOAA Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team (SECART) and the Disaster Preparedness Program will convene a workshop and exercise May 14-16, 2019 in Charleston, South Carolina to identify opportunities to improve NOAA’s disaster resilience in the region. This year’s event will focus on the “recovery” of NOAA offices, resources, partners, and constituents following a disaster.</p>
<p>During this workshop, we will:</p>
<ul><li>Explore NOAA’s roles and responsibilities throughout the recovery phase of a disaster cycle;</li>
<li>Determine the best ways we can work together to ensure that NOAA offices and partners have the capacity to recover in the wake of a disaster;</li>
</ul><p><strong>Improving NOAA Emergency Preparedness in the Western Region</strong></p>
<p>With the growing threat of disasters in all areas of the U.S., it's evident that communities respond and recover more effectively when preparedness measures have been taken ahead of time. In an effort to improve NOAA’s unified regional response and recovery posture, the DPP will lead NOAA’s Western Region through a tabletop exercise the week of June 3, 2019 in Seattle.</p>
<p>During this exercise, they will:</p>
<ul><li>Demonstrate and explain the capability of each represented NOAA office to increase agency-wide collaboration during a hazardous situation;</li>
<li>Discuss the capability to deliver coordinated, prompt, reliable, and actionable information.</li>
<li>Evaluate NOAA’s capacity to maintain a coordinated response in a hazardous situation.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Internal OR&amp;R Response Posture Exercise</strong></p>
<p>As a result of recent active hurricane seasons, the DPP, in partnership with the other OR&amp;R divisions, outlined the need for additional internal preparedness to better enhance our own response posture. To meet this goal, the DPP is developing a tabletop exercise to be held in the summer of 2019. We are still in the early planning phases of this exercise, so additional details will be available in the coming months.</p>
<p>During this exercise, we plan to explore topics such as:</p>
<ul><li>Improving our services;</li>
<li>Incorporating new technologies; and</li>
<li>OR&amp;R staffing capabilities, skills, and expertise.</li>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Each year, prior to the beginning of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Sector Mobile and the NOAA Disaster Response Center (DRC) test their capabilities with a Continuity of Operations (COOP) exercise. </p>
<!--break--><p> This year, the exercise was held on May 11 at the DRC. Approximately 80 USCG members participated in this six hour exercise designed to ensure connectivity and compatibility between systems. All of this is done prior to each year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season as just one preparedness effort. Making sure our systems are able to connect is vital in the event Sector Mobile needs to use the DRC as an alternate location prior to hurricane impacts. The USCG conducted their hotwash the day after, May 12, and the final After Action Report will be completed soon. Initial assessments indicated that the exercise was extremely effective and ran smoothly.</p>
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</div><div class="field field-name-field-node-weight field-type-list-integer field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Node Weight:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">2</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Site Themes:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/disaster-preparedness/training-and-resources/disaster-response-center/newsletter" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Newsletter</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-short-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">COOP Exercise at the DRC</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:40:38 +0000katherine.krushinski2423 at https://response.restoration.noaa.govRegistration is Now Open for the Science of Coastal Natural Hazards Classhttps://response.restoration.noaa.gov/disaster-response-center-newsletter/registration-now-open-science-coastal-natural-hazards-class
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>NOAA's Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center (DRC) would like to announce the fall offering of the "NOAA's Science of Coastal Natural Hazards" Course on October 31-November 2, 2017 in Mobile, Alabama. </p>
<!--break--><p> The goal of the course is to enhance understanding of the risks, physical processes, and NOAA products and services related to coastal natural disasters available to improve decision making and planning in the Southeast, Gulf, and Caribbean Regions. During the course, participants can expect to learn about physical processes associated with each disaster type, information and tools necessary to improve on the job decision making, and planning for coastal natural disasters and NOAA’s role during the evolution of a response from preparedness to response and long-term recovery. Additionally, the course provides a unique opportunity to network with other response professionals across various levels of government and industry. Registration for the class will open in August. For further information, contact <a href="mailto: Jamechia.Hoyle@noaa.gov"> Jamechia Hoyle</a>.</p>
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